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LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 9, 2013 (One big page)

• Front: Fedora's invisible passwords and visible squabbles; Miro 6, video, and the web; A $99 supercomputer.
• Security: IBM's homomorphic encryption library; New vulnerabilities in kernel, mesa, phpmyadmin, xen, ...
• Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 2; Full tickless; LLVMLinux.
• Distributions: Defining the Fedora user base; Debian, openSUSE Edu Li-f-e, ...
• Development: Glibc; Adobe's CFF rasterizer; Geary crowdfunding; spreading the word about your code; ...
• Announcements: OSI Board Changes, VP8 Patent Cross-license Agreement, Flock, ...

• Front: Outreach Program for Women; Google Test Automation Conference; The value of FOSS fiscal sponsorship.
• Security: Code authenticity checking; New vulnerabilities in clamav, kernel, qemu, strongswan, ...
• Kernel: What's coming in 3.10, part 1; Wait/wound mutexes; LSFMM coverage complete.
• Distributions: x32 ABI support by distributions; DragonFly, OpenBSD, Ubuntu, ...
• Development: Go and Rust; GDB 7.6; Open Build Service 2.4; OpenShot fundraising update; ...
• Announcements: SFC to create accounting software, FSF certifies ThinkPenguin, events.

• Front: Font development trends; More Libre Graphics Meeting coverage; GPLv3 in automobiles.
• Security: Ubuntu app confinement; New vulnerabilities in java, kernel, mysql, xen, ...
• Kernel: Narrow bitmasks; Nonvolatile memory devices; LSFMM Summit 2013.
• Distributions: Fedora 19 alpha; Debian, ROSA ABF, ...
• Development: Dynamic linking and derivative works; The $12 Gongkai Phone; MySQL 5.7.1; Feed reading on the open web; ...
• Announcements: Germany and software patents, SkySQL and Monty Program, SFC appoints new director, ...

• Front: Collaboration and animation at LGM; Surveying open source licenses; Current challenges in the free software ecosystem; GNOME 3.8.
• Security: Mixed web content; New vulnerabilities in curl, kernel, krb5, xen, ...
• Kernel: 3.9 Development statistics; Memory power management.
• Distributions: Upstart for user sessions; Fuduntu, openSUSE, Pardus, ...
• Development: Rust; The future of Python 2; Freedesktop summit; KlyDE; ...
• Announcements: Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project, IFOSSLR 5.1 available, OPW, ...

• Front: Mozilla's trademark enforcement experience; Legal issues from a radical community angle; Vulnerability handling in the PostgreSQL project.
• Security: Entropy Broker; New vulnerabilities in asterisk, kernel, postgresql, samba, ...
• Kernel: Retrying revoke(); Randomizing the kernel; Toward a more power-efficient scheduler.
• Distributions: Tanglu: bringing Debian testing to the masses; Ubuntu, Fedora, ...
• Development: Python IDLE; Persona beta 2; Emacs Conference videos; xkbcommon; ...
• Announcements: OASIS gains ANSI accreditation, the OpenDaylight Project, GSoC mentoring organizations, ...

• Front: Python Software Foundation; VP8 patent wars; PyDAW.
• Security: Exploiting digital cameras; New vulnerabilities in bind, glibc, mantis, moodle, ...
• Kernel: Per-process reclaim; A VFS deadlock post-mortem; In-kernel memory compression.
• Distributions: Schrödinger's 😻 and outside-the-box naming; Scientific Linux, Ubuntu, Firefox OS, ...
• Development: Python bytecodes; crowdfunding Geary; new browser engines; C++14 papers; ...
• Announcements: Subsurface mourns Jan Schubert, software patents, 15 years of Mozilla, crowdfunding and the JOBS Act, ...

• Front: StatusNet, Identi.ca, and transitioning to pump.io; Protecting communities; Evangelizing Python.
• Security: OpenSSH 6.2; New vulnerabilities in gnome-online-accounts, kernel, libxml2, privoxy, ...
• Kernel: Breaking GlusterFS; Widening ext4's readdir() cookie; Multipath TCP.
• Distributions: GNOME, Fedora, and login-screen logos; Ubuntu, Slackware, Arch, ...
• Development: Asynchronous I/O in Python; GNOME 3.8; C and C++ speed in GCC; replacing Google Reader; ...
• Announcements: Awards for Bassel Khartabil and the TAZ, LF EEU report, videos for PyCon and devconf.cz, ...

• Front: Upholding first sale; Eben Upton on the Raspberry Pi; When does the FSF own your code?
• Security: Mozilla Persona; New vulnerabilities in chromium, clamav, poppler, wireshark, ...
• Kernel: The trouble with DMA masks; Anatomy of a user namespaces vulnerability.
• Distributions: Debian Project Leader election draws near; Debian, Tanglu, ...
• Development: GCC 4.8.0 approaching; Open Badges 1.0; Geary 0.3; FreeDV Robustness; ...
• Announcements: Goodbye Malcolm Tredinnick, GSoC mentors, PSF ends trademark dispute, Tor report, ...

• Front: Linaro Connect; Facebook contemplates ARM servers; The life and times of the AGPL.
• Security: Hockeypuck key server; New vulnerabilities in gksu-polkit, kernel, openshift, puppet, ...
• Kernel: SO_REUSEPORT; The trouble with CAP_SYS_RAWIO; Android upstreaming.
• Distributions: A look at openSUSE 12.3; CentOS, Kali, ubermix, wmlive, ...
• Development: GCC's move to C++; Ardour 3.0; Emacs 24.3; feature proposals for GNOME 3.10; ...
• Announcements: VP8 and MPEG LA, Open Source at CeBIT, LinuxGizmos, ...

• Front: Nano-copters; SpaceX lessons learned; Advocating FOSS at the DoD
• Security: Oxford blocks Google Docs; New vulnerabilities in kernel, openafs, openjdk-6, sudo, ...
• Kernel: 3.9 merge window conclusion; big LITTLE MP; Simplifying RCU; Namespaces part 6.
• Distributions: Ubuntu unveils its next-generation shell and display server; Ubuntu, openSUSE, Puppy, ...
• Development: Static site generators; Upstart 1.7; Zero Install 2.0; LibreOffice moves to make; ...
• Announcements: SFC annual report, PyCon AU CfP, LPC Android microconference, ...

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